07-04-2009, 06:45 PM
Just some wrap up points.
In 2 weeks I'll be home where I believe I know where my Einstein book is. At that point I will try to post the exact details as given there. I should warn you, however, while it seems that there is general agreement that some of his papers which transformed physics were rejected as being sufficient for a thesis, my weak google-fu leads me to believe that no one has any real idea why. To quote you "people are entitled to their own opinions not their own facts". So my update will probably just be one sensationalized story.
Quote:I don't have my books unpacked and couldn't find translations of the 1905 papers online, so I don't know if he *refereed* to these people in his papersHere you go. http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www/
Quote:That would have been strange, since traditionally a dissertation is on a single topic. Since his dissertation was on A new determination of molecular dimensions, anything having to do with electrodynamics or the photoelectric effect would not have fit. His work on Brownian motion might have, but I've never heard of it being submitted as part of the thesis.
In 2 weeks I'll be home where I believe I know where my Einstein book is. At that point I will try to post the exact details as given there. I should warn you, however, while it seems that there is general agreement that some of his papers which transformed physics were rejected as being sufficient for a thesis, my weak google-fu leads me to believe that no one has any real idea why. To quote you "people are entitled to their own opinions not their own facts". So my update will probably just be one sensationalized story.